A solution of generic digital television middleware

Abstract

Nowadays the consumer electronics market is changing in such a way of making set-top box devices with more features in smaller time frames. Meanwhile, in parallel, advanced multimedia operating systems appearing containing abstraction of basic media components, like demultiplexer, decoder and digital right management plugins. Basic media components must be implemented by vendors, to make their device certificated. This paper presents a solution of generic digital television middleware which instead of traditional approach implementing hardware abstraction layer and connecting middleware to low level drivers, reuses media components from the system, skips the porting phase and thus allows to build the final product in less time. It this paper, two approaches to accomplish this goal are presented and compared.